Unit 19 operated as a laboratory for experimentation in architectural design, fabrication and assembly utilising advanced digital technologies. We aimed to push the limits of what we know and what we know how to do, projecting radical change in the discipline of architecture. We designed disruptive speculative projects for the near-now.

In order to understand our contemporary situation, it is necessary to see how it links with what preceded it. Phenomena that appear to be radical novelties may, in historical light, reveal themselves to be simple continuities. – Nick Srnieck, “The Long Downturn”, Platform Capitalism (2017), p9.

disrupt [verb]: to interrupt (an event, activity or process) by causing a disturbance or problem; to drastically alter or destroy the structure of – Oxford English Dictionary